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Festival Films at Nowhere Cafe Bar
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Dir. Paul Sng (UK 2024, 80mins PG)
Riveting portrait of superb but forgotten photographer of working-class Britain in the 70s, Tish Murtha.
As featured in this week's Guardian
Screening at NOWHERE CAFE BAR, HOLMFIRTH - limited seating, book online to secure your seat.
If you wish to eat at Nowhere prior to seeing the film, please book direct with Nowhere on 01484 246732 or via Nowhere, Holmfirth
In celebration of the HOLMFIRTH FESTIVAL OF FOLK, Holmfirth Film Festival is putting on an exhibition of its Brian Lawton Collection of Folk Photographs from 1960s Huddersfield – including John Martyn, the Incredible String Band, Tom Paxton, Joan Baez among many others - and from the 1970s/80s Holmfirth Folk Festivals - featuring performers, street parades and dancers. Are you there?
Drop into Nowhere Cafe Bar (Norridge Bottom) Cinema Lounge
Thursday 11am onwards (rolling exhibition throughout the day)
or come along to Bring Your Own Folk Vinyl Night from 6.30pm
Special night on the foundation of the subculture Modernists in the late 1950s which led to the explosion of MOD in the early 60s.
Screening of the UK’s celebrated Jazz Modernist TUBBY HAYES: A MAN IN A HURRY and JOHN SIMONS: A MODERNIST, a leading designer of the menswear which inspired MOD, and THE PLEBS, a MOD club in Halifax in the mid-1960s.
FREE EVENT BUT PLEASE BOOK ONLINE TO ENSURE A PLACE
Second part of the acclaimed sci-fi epic; spectacular, thrilling. . .
SCREENING AT NOWHERE BAR, Norridge Bottom, Holmfirth
Wednesday evening 29 May 6.30pm
ADMISSION FREE but book your ticket/seat below to ensure a place.
Cultural Voucher holders If you are 18 and living in HD9 but don't have a voucher yet, apply now. Your voucher offers free entry to all our films plus other events taking place across the Holme Valley over the coming year.
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Dir. Jonathan Demme (US 1984, 98mins PG)
Back by popular demand. Super 4K remastered and expanded concert with all the favourites. Probably… the best music film ever made.
Dir. Gyorgy Feher (Hungary 1991, 105mins 15)
The word ‘masterpiece’ is overused but this – almost unknown until its recent re-release - may actually be one. Astonishing black-and-white cinematography and images that linger long in the mind in a film-noir like no other.
Drop into Nowhere (Norridge Bottom), eat, drink and enjoy this afternoon of films by long-time local film-maker Mike Wade - recording and celebrating life in the Holme Valley with its characters, events and floods. Programme start times 2pm and 4pm.
This is a free event - however, if you'd like to make a donation to the film festival, you can do so by booking an advance place through the online ticket link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eduFWdheWZg
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Holmfirth Walking Festival presents: Wild
Dir. Jean-Marc Vallee (US 2014, 115mins 15)
Nick Hornby script, director at the height of his powers and an award-winning Reese Witherspoon as the divorcee who discovers herself when on a solo hike on the sensational Pacific Crest Trail. Powerful and emotional.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn2-GSqPyl0
CANCELLATION NOTICE
SCREENING OF THIS FILM IS CANCELLED DUE TO LOW TICKET TAKE UP
WE ARE EXTREMELY SORRY FOR ANY DISAPPOINTMENT BUT TICKETS HAVE NOT BEEN TAKEN UP MAKING IT TOO COSTLY FOR US TO SCREEN
pls email any enquiries to holmfirthfilm@gmail.com
Dir. Laura Citarella (Argentina 2023, 260mins 12)
Film of the year? Beguiling, mesmerising and totally mysterious. Six years in the making, this is an epic and unclassifiable tale of a man in search of someone who has apparently disappeared.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDPaCJvfw-Y
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Dir. Christian Carion (France 2022 91mins 15)
A simple taxi ride across Paris turns into a deeply moving and profound meditation on life, age and friendship between a grumpy driver and the beloved 92-year- old French singer. Line Renaud.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyuGbp6svpQ
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Dir. Roddy Bogawa & Strom Thorgerson (UK 2023, 94mins 15)
Barrett biographer Rob Chapman introduces this excellent documentary by Hipgnosis on the early years (and best) of the UK’s most innovative and successful band.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALajTTcXwZE
Dir. Patricio Guzman (Chile 2019, 84mins 12A)
Best documentary at Cannes and the final film of the trilogy we have screened. Masterful juxtaposition of the stunning beauty of the Andes and the political legacy left by the military dictatorship of President Pinochet of a Chile the director was forced to leave 40 years ago.
Dir. Carla J. Easton & Blair Young (Scotland 2024, 89mins 12)
Just released documentary on the women of Scottish pop music from the 60s to today. Engaging, revealing and funny account of the trail-blazing and visionary girl bands.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOYYmM7e0sw
Dir. Wim Wenders (Germany 2023, 93mins PG)
Hypnotic and visually striking biographical portrait of the innovative German painter and sculptor, considered one of the important artists of our time, Anselm Kiefer.
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Dir. David Allen (UK 2023, 78mins PG)
Truly inspirational and acclaimed documentary on the young couple who bet on nature and ‘rewilding’ to save their failing 400-year-old family farm.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wha__qRugTw
December 16 @ 6:30 pm
IN CONJUNCTION WITH NOWHERE, NORRIDGE BOTTOM
we're screening ‘Talking Heads – Stop Making Sense’ - brilliant film, brilliant music, brilliant band. . .
A brilliant start to your Christmas 2024!
First drink included in ticket price, 6:30pm start
Tickets £10 available online or buy in person (cash only please) at Nowhere
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The war in Gaza...
Dir. Alexis Bloom (US 2024, 113 mins 15)
Explosive and brilliant documentary on the morally and financially corrupt Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu using leaked interrogation videos, as he desperately connives to cling on to power.
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Documentary of the Year…
Dir. Johan Grimonprez (Belgium,2024, 150 mins 12A)
Terrific, fascinating and superbly constructed account of the build-up to the assassination of the Congo leader Patrice Lumumba in 1961, set to a brilliant pulsating Jazz soundtrack.
(Dir. John Flynn (US 1977, 95mins 18)
Remastered, uncut and in gleaming 4k, a wonderful William Devane is the returned Vietnam vet PoW hero seeking revenge in a scorching screenplay by Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver) and directed by the underrated Flynn (Charley Varrick).
ACTION!
Dir. Potsy Ponciroli (US 2021, 99mins 15)
Great performance from Tim Blake Nelson in an excellent, atmospheric western as the mysterious widowed farmer who faces a murderous posse.
Dir. Pascal Plante (Canada 2023, 121mins 18)
Quietly but deeply unsettling thriller of a different kind as a fashionable model fixates on a serial killer court case which leads her down a dark social media rabbit hole.
(Dir. James Mangold US 2024 140mins 15)
Barnstorming, Oscar nominated performance from Timothee Chalamet in an excellent biography of early 60s’ Bob Dylan.
Dir. Cath Longbottom (UK 2024)
Film-maker Cath Longbottom screens and talks about her documentary on Howard Riley, Huddersfield-born composer and free jazz pianist legend who died in February 2025.
‘Delightful’, Jazz News.
PLEASE BOOK ONLINE FOR THIS EVENT TO ENSURE A PLACE
(Dir. Al iAbbas US 2024 120mins 15)
The film Donald Trump tried to ban.
Hugely entertaining and insightful drama with Oscar-nominated Sebastian Stan as Trump centred on his bankrupt real estate business, stolen from his father, and mentoring by corrupt New York lawyer Roy Cohn.
(Dir. Pat Collins Ireland 2023 107mins 15)
Based on John McGahern’s bestselling novel, this beautifully shot elegy to a lost Ireland is a vivid evocation of nature and rural life as a couple return in 1980 to their childhood home.
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